Bessel's correction
nameEtymology
Named after Friedrich Bessel.
Definitions
The use of n − 1 instead of n in the formula for the sample variance and sample standard…
The use of n − 1 instead of n in the formula for the sample variance and sample standard deviation, where n is the number of observations in a sample. This corrects the bias in the estimation of the population variance and partially corrects the bias in the estimation of the population standard deviation, but often also increases the mean squared error in these estimations.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Bessel's correction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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